Monday, November 7, 2016

HOW WE CREATE OUR REALITY – A TRUE STORY

Josh and Lizzie spent the majority of their young adult
lives working in the hospitality business in the same town. They made decisions leading them down this
path working in the restaurant business which ultimately introduced them to
each other. Both in their early 30s,
they knew “everyone” in the local restaurant scene and were involved in their
community they called home.

Josh had recently been working the past seven years for a family
establishment managing three of their eateries in the San Francisco Bay
Area. Lizzie had been working for an
equal amount of time for a local Public House as their manager. They were both
familiar with each of these local businesses including their owners. Josh and Lizzie were well known and
respected in their local industry and community. You see, they both innately understood what
it meant to offer service to others and their work and personal interactions
exhibited this. They were both highly
successful making their respective employers highly successful.

Josh and Lizzie were a couple and shared many good times,
work related ideas and dreams. One day
they were talking about having their own restaurant and asked themselves, “If
we had our own place what would it look like.”
They both agreed it would be like The Commonwealth where Lizzie worked.

Several months later they both received a call from the
owners of The Commonwealth saying that they were moving back to their home
country and were selling their business – and they specifically wanted to sell
it to Josh and Lizzie!

After four months of due diligence, securing a loan and
engaging The Commonwealth’s employees in the transition process Josh and Lizzie
became the new owners of the exact place they both dreamed of.

Today the business is bustling, the customers are happy, the
employees are happy and Josh and Lizzie are the proud and joyous owners of The
Commonwealth.

Unbeknownst to Josh and Lizzie when they both came up with
the thought and visualization of having a place like The Commonwealth they set
in motion the events which made this dream a reality. The owners could have chosen to put the
business on the open market to see what kind of a (better) price they might
have received with some competition for their offer. The bank loan might not have been secured
since neither Josh nor Lizzie had much savings for collateral. The employees could have reacted with
negativity. Many different things could
have happened to change the outcome.

However, Josh and Lizzie’s strong belief
and detailed imagination in what they wanted and confidence that they could do
it set in play Universal forces culminating in exactly what they chose.

What happened with Josh and Lizzie is only one example of
the kind of power we all have. How we
create our reality is very simply through our thoughts.

We all do this every day, mostly unknowingly
and in many circumstances creating our realities both positive and negative. The trick is controlling our thoughts so that
the outcomes of these thoughts are what we want. If we want positive outcomes we need to
reject negative thoughts and only accept positive thoughts. And for any reality we want to create our
imagination needs to be as detailed as possible.

U.S Andersen takes us on a journey teaching us just how we
can harness the power of our thoughts in his book, Three Magic Words. What is important to remember is that
whether we believe what Andersen has to say or not, the Universe still responds
to our thoughts making realities every day.
So it behooves us to harness this power in a manner we choose or we will
find ourselves asking, “How did we get here?”

As religious scriptures have told us, “God made us in
his/her image.” What this means is we
have the powers to create just as God does.
(Note: I am comfortable using the
term God. Others have chosen to refer to
this Universal power as the Source, the One, the Universal Mind, the Creator
and others. However we reference this
power, it is very real and we all are directly connected to it.)

When you look out on the World, keep in mind that this is
Man’s creation. That is, God, giving us free will has allowed us to create that
which we desire. As I’ve discussed
before, God does not judge us. We get to
create what we choose, though there are Universal laws and consequences for our
creations/actions. (Do unto others as you would unto yourself. What goes around comes around.) In the everlasting process of Self-realization
our Soul never dies, but re-manifests itself in new form to continue with the
process. This inability for our Soul to
die is God’s unconditional love for his/her creation. Understanding and
connecting with what is our true essence is why we are on this continual path
towards Self-realization. Through our
thoughts we get to choose whether this process will be joyful or filled with
pain and sorrow.

If Man’s world is full of distress it is because Man’s
thoughts are filled with anger, pain, fear and sorrow. Our media is bombarding us with negative
thoughts every hour of every day. Unending wars and harm to others seems to be
the reality set upon us. Mostly this is
because Man’s World is manifested by the thoughts accepted by the ego rather
than the inner Self or Soul. And yet there are
those who exist in a world of seeming chaos who are happy, joyful and have created
beautiful lives.

So, if we want to change the World, we first have to start
with ourselves by paying attention to and changing our thoughts. Create your own reality of beauty and by
extension it will touch the World.